The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-04-21
TRIBUTES TO WOMEN.
Gems From the Poets, Preachers
and Sages of Many Lands.

ana SageS OF many LanQS.
Confucius-Woman is the masterpiece,
Herder-Woman is the crown of crea-
ton.
Richter-No man can live piously with
out wife.
Voltaire-women teach us repose,
civility and dignity.
Lessing-Nature meant to make woman
its masterpiece.
Ruskiu-Shakespeare has no heroes
he has only heroines.
Whittier-If Woman lost us Eden, she
alone can restore it.
John Quincy Adans-All that am, my
mother made me.
Gladstone-Woman is the most perfect
when the most womanly.
Oabanis-In wishing to extend her en-
pire, woman destroys it.
L. S. Barrett-Woman is last at the
cross and earliest at the grave.
Boucicault-I wish Adam had died with
all his ribs in his body.
Saadi-A handsome woman is q jewel;
good woman is treasure.
Lamartine-There is woman at the
beginning of all great things.
Bulwer-To gentleman, every woman
is lady in right of her sex.
Victor Hugo-Women detest the ser
pent through professional jealousy.
Cowley-What is a womanS Only one
of natures agreeable blunders.
Rochefoucauld-A fashionable woman
is always in love with herself
Shakespeare-There was never fair
woman but she mouths in glass.
Francis IA woman changes oft; who
trusts her is the softest of the soft.
N.P. Willis-The sweetest thing in life
is the unclouded welcome Of wife.
Cervantes-All women are good-good
for nothing or good for something.
George Elliot-A passionate woman's
love is always overshadowed by her fear.
Heine-Handsom women without re-
ligion are like flowers without perfume.
Observation-Disclosures woman's 'yes"
and "no" would not venture to stick
pin.
Voltaire--Al the reasonings of men are
not worth one sentiment of woman.
Beecher-Women are a new race, re-
created since the world received Chris
tianity.
Leopold Schefer-But one thing on
earth is better than the wife--that is the
mother.
Luther-Earth has nothing more ten
der than a woman's heart when it is the
abode of pity.
Shakespeare-Fo where is any author
in the world teaches such beauty as
woman's eyesY
Michelet-Woman is the Sunday OF
man; not his repose only, but his Joy, the
salt of his life.
Mornorat Eullar OusOIi- Ia
born for love, and it is impossible to turn
her from seeking 1t.
Louis Desnovers-A woman may be
ugly, i'll shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly
and stupid but rarely ever ridiculous.
Lord Lonsdale-If the whole world we're
put into one scale, and my mother into
the other, the world would kick the beam.
Malherbe-There are only two beautiful
things in the world-women and roses;
and only two sweet things--women and
melons.
Bulwer Lytton-O, womanl in ordinary
cases so mere mortal, how in the great
and rare events in life dost thou swell into
the angels!
Saville-Women have more strength in
their looks than we have in our laws; and
more power by their tears than we have
by our arguments.
Emerson--A beautiful woman is prac-
tical poet; tanning her savage mate, plant
ing tenderness, hope and eloquence in all
whom she approaches.
Anna Cora Mowatt = Misfortune
sprinkles ashes on the heart of the man,
but falls like dew on the head of the
woman, and brings forth germs of
strength of which she herself has no con-
scious possession.